with the $121 million sum being the highest price paid for a piece of surrealist art at auction. Magritte painted the work in 1957, but over the course of his career he produced 17 oil paintings ...
A René Magritte painting ... a surrealist motif that Magritte explored in his landscape paintings for almost two decades. “The motif is one of the few truly iconic images in 20th century art ...
the painting inspired a 10-minute duel between two telephone bidders. The price was the highest yet paid for a Surrealist work of art at auction, and made Magritte the 16th artist to break the $ ...